Samuel t



(No Model.)

S. T. JULL.

' LEMON CUTTER AND SQUEEZER.

iApr. 22. 1890.

Nrrn STATES ATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL T. J U LL, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FARNUM T. FISH, OF SAME PLACE.

LEMON CUTTERAND SQUEEZER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 426,188, dated April 22, 1890.

Application filed July 6, 1889. Serial No. 816,680. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL T. JULL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lemon Cutting and Squeezing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine for cutting and extracting the juice from lemons; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of the several parts composing the machine, the operation being performed by the movements of a hand-lever, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l. is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation, of my machine. Fig. 3 is a detail view showing how the lever operates the cuttingblade, and Fig. 4. is also a detail view showing how the lever operates the squeezers.

A is a frame-standard of suitable form and dimensions for supporting the working parts, spread at the base, making room for a glass or other receptacle to receive the expressed juice. At a suitable height is provided a dish-shaped shelf B, secured upon lugs a a at the sides of the frame. Through the'bottom of said shelf is made an opening, by which the expressed juice falls into the receptacle below. Above said shelf and pivoted in the arch of the frame is a swinging plate C, having a curved cutting-blade C attached. Said plate has a curved edge provided with a flange c, and. each side of the plate is corrugated. Upon the hub of said plate there is a segment of gear-teeth 0 The top part of the frame has upwardly-extending arms A and between their top ends is pivoted a hand-lever D, the long arm of which forms the handle, the short arm having a short rack-bar (Z, which engages with the segment 0 for operating the plate and cutting-blade C C E E are two levers pivoted to the front side of the frame, to the lower ends of which are provided disks 6 6, between which the lemon is squeezed. The upper ends of said levers E E are connected by knuckle-jointed link F. On the joint of the link is made abossf,

which slides between the guides g g. The short arm of the lever D, in its upward move ment, )ushes up the link at its joint, and in straightening it expands the long arms of the levers E E, and thereby forces the disks e together.

G is a spring between the upper ends of the levers E E, by which they are drawn together when the hand-lever is turned upward for spreading the disks.

The operations of this machine are as follows: The hand-lever being turned upward, carries the plate and cutting device upward, as seen in Fig. 3, and also allows the disks c e to spread. The lemon may now be placed in the shelf B. New bybearing down thehandlever the plate and cutting-blade C C are forced downward, the blade severing the lemon into halves, the plate passing between them. Then rack (Z on the short arm of lever leaves the segment 0 and pushes up the link F, forcing the lovers E E apart and squeezes the lemon between the disks c c against the corrugated sides of the plate, extracting the juice.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a machine for cutting and squeezing lemons, the combination of a stationary frame, a curved shelf for holding the lemon, a cuttingblade and corrugated plate provided with a curved flange and pivoted in the arch of said frame above said shelf, a pair of pivoted compressingdevers, and a hand-lever fulcrumed in the top of said frame above the said cutting-blade, and having a rack-bar on its short arm engaging with a segmental rack on the hub of the cuttingblade, construct-ed to operate for severing the lemon in halves, substantially as described.

2. In a machine for cutting and squeezing lemons, the combination of a stationary frame, a curved shelf for holding the lemon, a cutting-blade having aplate and pivoted in the arch of said frame, a hand-lever fulerumed in the top of said frame above the said outcorrugated plate, all constructed and operatting-blade and plate, and apair of levers fuling substantially as described. crumed to the frame at each side of the arch,

and having their top ends connected by a SAMUEL T. JULL.

5 knuckle-jointed link and a retracting-spring, Vitnesses: I the lower ends of said levers having disks for J. H. OULBERTSON, compressing the severed lemon against the GEO. WV. TIBBITTS. 

